Cutting mechanism for mowers with partly covering hood



Feb. 1,1927. 1,616,430

- Y J. METHNER cu'rwme MECHANISM FOR MOWERS WITH PARTLY COVERING noon Fild Dec. 8. 1924 v JM I Patented. Feb. 1 i I A Y L "I I l I JQIIAI NMETHNER, on GUHRAU, GERMANY.

CUTTING MECHANISM FOR MOWERS VJITII PARTLY' COVERING Application fi led. DecemberB, 1924, Serial No. 754,646, and in Germany December .7, 1923.

This invention relates to a covering hood which operates through the intermediary of A" 7 "designed to cover a certain portion of the the connecting rod the rod shownin Fig. cutting mechanism of mowing machines in. .2 so that the hood Z) is shifted-tothe left order to keep the ears of overhanging corn in Fig. 2and pushed overthe cuttin'g'mecln ,s stalks away from the cutting mechanism. anism' a, for intance into thev poitlon lll The covering hood is shiftably mounted on dicated by dotted lines inthis Fig. 2. 45 and above the cutting mechanism and con- The covering hood Z) is shiftable on the trolled from the 'drivers seat by means of cutting mechanism in longitudinal direction a system of levers so that the driver, when so that it may cover any desired portion of' the machine encounters corn stalks with this mechanism and'so that it canbe moved overhanging ears, may cover the correspondaway from said cutting mechanism in lateral 5o ing portion of the cutting vmechanism by 7 direction. (Z is'an element rigid to the coversaid covering hood, to prevent the ears geting-hood', a so-called divider, by means of ting between the knives. 'Cutting of which the driver is able to accurately reguoverhanging ears fronrthe stalks is thus lite. the position of the covering hood ac efi'ectively prevented. 1 cording to the depth which the mowing ma- 55 An embodiment of the invention is shown, chine has to penetrate into the corn field. by way of example, in the accompanying Owing to the divider cl thefdriver ofthe drawings, in which i mowing machine can observe the cutting of Fig. 1 is a front elevation and 7 the corn and accordingly cover or uncover Fig. 2 a plan view. 7 i i the cutting mechanism. n I H Fig. 3 is a section on line IIIIII of The divider disinclined in order to move Fig. 2. i V a 1 inadvance of the covering hood to prepare On the cutting mechanism a; of a mowing ,the" work and facilitate the work for the machine, a covering hood I) is shiftably same. mounted. The covering hood ,7) is con- Iclaim: x

trolled by a-system of leversc adapted to be In combination with the cutting mechaoperated from the drivers seat (not shown). nism of a mowing machine, a covering hood In Fig. 2 the position of the hood is inmovably placed on one end of said cutting 0 'dicated in dotted lines in which it covers mechanisima pu'sh rod parallel to saidcut-' a portion of the cutting mechanism a. The ting mechanism fixed'in'said hood and sup- 70 dotted lines in the hood 6 indicate the por porting said hood, and a means on the mows tions of rod 0 covered by the hood and the ing machine for shifting said rod and by the holder which serves as guide'for the rod 0. same said hood so that. said'hood covers 3 This holder is clearly shown in Fig. 3 and said cuttingmechanism at any desired part also the eye in which the rod 0 is guided. thereof to prevent overhanging ears of corn 7a The hood bis operated from the drivers, stalks getting between the cuttlng knives. gseat (not shown in' the drawing) The In testimony whereof I afiix my slgnature.

driver pushes forward with his foot a crank J OHANN METHNER. 

